🇸🇦⚡SAUDI ARABIA HAD ALREADY FORESEEN A CRISIS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ 45 YEARS AGO ⚡🇸🇦
While much of the world continues to depend on the Strait of Hormuz for oil transportation, Saudi Arabia had already anticipated the geopolitical risks associated with this strategic point over four decades ago.
In the 1980s, the Saudi kingdom indeed built a gigantic energy infrastructure almost out of the spotlight: a pipeline approximately 1,200 kilometers long that connects the oil fields of the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea coast.
This infrastructure, known as the East‑West Pipeline, allows Saudi oil to be exported directly to international markets without passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This detail is extremely important from a strategic standpoint.
Today, about 20% of the world's oil actually passes through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most critical energy chokepoints on the planet.
Any geopolitical crisis in the region — military tensions, naval blockades, or attacks on infrastructure — could disrupt maritime traffic and cause severe shocks in global energy markets.
In this scenario, many exporting countries would remain blocked, with enormous consequences on oil prices and the global economy.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, thanks to this strategic pipeline, can completely bypass the strait and continue to ship its crude oil through the Red Sea.
What at the time seemed simply like a large infrastructure project now appears as one of the most farsighted geopolitical and energy moves ever made in the global oil market.
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